When Bruce Springsteen brought his “Land of Hope and Dreams Tour” to the Los Angeles area this week, it followed the same template as the opening night of the tour in Minneapolis exactly seven days prior. There was one addition to the setlist Tuesday, in the first of two Kia Forum shows: a cover of the Clash’s “Clampdown,” sung as a duet with Tom Morello. Inevitably, they drew big cheers when they got to the vintage Strummer-Jones line “In these days of evil presidentes…” Who knew that, 47 years later, Americans would be bashing kings with an even greater passion than the Brits of the original punk era?
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